AH Challenge: Surviving Kievan Rus

You challenge is to have the old Keivan Rus adapt better than it did in OTL and have it survive as long as possible. I don't know much about the period, so you will have to rely on yourselves for details?

How long could it survive? Would it become an alternate Russia or would it develop along different lines?
 

Kosovic

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Possibly Ukrajna would be the European part of Russia, while Novgorod would expand to the east in Siberja.
 
If there were no Mongols, then Kievan Rus' would probably survive, although as something like a Holy Roman Empire, a mess of smaller city-states paying titular homage to a supreme ruler.
 
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